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Lois (in hat) at Arlington Honor's Ceremony
for her father, Chaplain (Col.) Harold Clarke

Parents   Lois' father was an Army Chaplain who served in both Korea and Viet Nam.  He taught her the importance of a spiritual basis to life and of service to country.  Her mother was a bookkeeper and earned a Masters in Special Education.  Lois learned her accounting skills helping her mother during school vacations.  Lois' brother John retired from the army as a Full Colonel.  He helped develop the system for ordering medical supplies for the military that is saving taxpayers about five billion dollars.


Lois (left) and Fred Payne at apprentice training

Education  Though Army life required moving often, Lois was valedictorian in high school, was a National Merit Scholar and graduated from college with high honors. Work  Lois has worked for 32 years at SA Engineering.  She does everything from circuit layout, soldering and troubleshooting to accounting and payroll.  
Healing Lois has been meditating since 1967 and studying healing techniques. She is a practicing Apprentice in Phoenix Vibrational Healing. (fredpayne.com)

 

Recording Spiritual Music  Lois' husband Daniel helped her set up the Upper Room Studio where she recorded the Cosmic Commute. She is working on Chapter 2 of the Gita with alternating Sanskrit and English.
Recipes Over the years she has developed recipes with out sugar or wheat, including a holiday turkey meal with gravy, stuffing, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie.


Lois with her dog Shiela in the her Sagebrush Labyrinth. She built it from the Chartres Catheral pattern with 1/2 mile of rocks on their 40 acres.
Hobbies  Lois started playing the piano at 5 and first became a church organist at 16. She has a hundred year old pipe organ in her living room along with a Schultze-Pollman grand piano.  Lois plays classical and church music.  A more recent interest is labyrinths.  After walking the canvas Labyrinth at Trinity Episcopal Church, Lois felt inspired to make one on their land.  The pattern is from the Chartres Cathedral in France and has about a half mile of rock lined paths.  Lois helped start the Natural Law Party in the state of Nevada. She worked hard to help Nevada become the first state to require a paper trail on the electronic voting machines.